Includes bibliographical references (p. 419-423) and index.

Diplomatic recognition of states in statu nascendi: the case of Palestine / Sanford R. Silverburg -- Palestine: the issue of statehood / John Quigley -- Israel and the creation of a Palestinian state: the art of the impossible and the possible / Joseph H. Weiler -- Palestine and the world of law: a structural analysis / Sanford R. Silverburg -- Aspects of foreign relations under the Israeli-Palestinian agreements on interim self-government arrangements for the West Bank and Gaza / Joel Singer -- From liberation to state building in South Africa: some constitutional considerations for Palestine / Adrien Katherine Wing -- Peace and the political imperative of legal reform in Palestine / George E. Bisharat -- Mandate ways: self-determination in Palestine and the "existing non-Jewish communities" / John Strawson -- Palestine and the United Nations / Neri Sybesma-Knol -- From ostracism to a leading role--Spain's foreign policy towards the Middle East since 1939 / Juan Bautista Delgado -- Palestinian economic development in the era of globalization / David P. Fidler and Fadi G. Harb -- Legal and structural hurdles to achieving political stability and economic development in the Palestinian territories / Keith C. Molkner -- Palestinian economic progress under the Oslo Agreements / Mel Levine.